Merge branches 'expcb.2026.07.24a', 'misc.2026.07.30a', 'rcu-tasks.2026.07.30a', 'srcu.2026.08.11a' and 'torture.2026.08.14a' into HEADgrafted

Changes:

Make expedited grace periods expedite normal RCU callbacks

Miscellaneous fixes:
 * Improve diagnostic output with character task states.
 * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design.
 * Move from kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj().
 * Documentation updates.
 * Improve handling of RCU deferred quiescent states.
 * Clean up unused function arguments and structure fields.
 * Reduce show_rcu_gp_kthreads() stack space.

Tasks RCU updates:
 * Clean up after SRCU re-implementation of Tasks Trace RCU.
 * Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design.
 * Add ->lazy_timer status to diagnostic output.
 * Remove an unnecessary memory barrier.
 * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN.
 * Documentation updates.
 * Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() from macro to static inline
   function.

SRCU updates:
 * Add Rust helpers for SRCU.
 * Avoid losing queued work at cleanup_srcu_struct() time.

Torture-test updates:
 * Preparation work for immediate RCU priority deboosting.
 * Test RCU readers from real interrupt handlers (as opposed to softirq).
 * Simplify code through use of cpumask_next_wrap().
 * Improve diagnostic output with character task states.
 * Add rcutorture.nwriters parameter to allow lightweight stall testing,
   and rcutorture.stall_only to make doing so easier.
 * Test an RCU Tasks Trace grace period implying an RCU grace period.
 * Make RCU Tasks Trace torturing track reader batches.
 * Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN.
 * Plug a shuffle_tmp_mask memory leak on kthread spawn failure.

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+=================================================
+The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
+=================================================
+
+The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
+added to the kernel over time.  There is, as yet, little overall order or
+organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
+document!  With luck things will improve quickly over time.
+
+General guides to kernel administration
+---------------------------------------
+
+This initial section contains overall information, including the README
+file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
+etc.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   README
+   devices
+
+   features
+
+A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs
+virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   sysfs-rules
+   sysctl/index
+   cputopology
+   abi
+
+Security-related documentation:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   hw-vuln/index
+   LSM/index
+   perf-security
+
+Booting the kernel
+------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   bootconfig
+   kernel-parameters
+   efi-stub
+   initrd
+
+
+Tracking down and identifying problems
+--------------------------------------
+
+Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
+problems and bugs in particular.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   reporting-issues
+   reporting-regressions
+   quickly-build-trimmed-linux
+   verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions
+   bug-hunting
+   bug-bisect
+   tainted-kernels
+   ramoops
+   dynamic-debug-howto
+   init
+   kdump/index
+   perf/index
+   pstore-blk
+   clearing-warn-once
+   kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
+   lockup-watchdogs
+   RAS/index
+   sysrq
+
+
+Core-kernel subsystems
+----------------------
+
+These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are
+likely to be of interest on almost any system.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   cgroup-v2
+   cgroup-v1/index
+   cpu-isolation
+   cpu-load
+   mm/index
+   module-signing
+   namespaces/index
+   numastat
+   pm/index
+   syscall-user-dispatch
+
+Support for non-native binary formats.  Note that some of these
+documents are ... old ...
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   binfmt-misc
+   java
+   mono
+
+
+Block-layer and filesystem administration
+-----------------------------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   bcache
+   binderfs
+   blockdev/index
+   cifs/index
+   device-mapper/index
+   ext4
+   filesystem-monitoring
+   nfs/index
+   iostats
+   jfs
+   md
+   ufs
+   xfs
+
+Device-specific guides
+----------------------
+
+How to configure your hardware within your Linux system.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   acpi/index
+   aoe/index
+   auxdisplay/index
+   braille-console
+   btmrvl
+   dell_rbu
+   edid
+   gpio/index
+   hw_random
+   laptops/index
+   lcd-panel-cgram
+   media/index
+   nvme-multipath
+   parport
+   pnp
+   rapidio
+   rtc
+   serial-console
+   svga
+   thermal/index
+   thunderbolt
+   vga-softcursor
+   video-output
+
+Workload analysis
+-----------------
+
+This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
+application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
+Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting
+analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel
+subsystems expectations will be found here.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   workload-tracing
+
+Everything else
+---------------
+
+A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   ldm
+   unicode